The obelisk, erected in honor of the 200th anniversary of the Kuban Cossack army in the city of Krasnodar, located at the intersection of the Red and Budyonny. Overall height mounted on a pedestal stone obelisk is fourteen meters. The monument is crowned with double-headed eagle and a gilded ball. Shingles tape obelisk with the inscription "1696-1896 years.". Also on the faces of the pedestal you can see the plaques, one of which describes the historical events, which was dedicated to this monument.

The obelisk has an amazing destiny. After Ekaterinodar monument appeared in the late nineteenth century., It is for two decades with the Arc de Triomphe and the monument to Catherine II was the original card of Kuban capital. Create an obelisk was dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the Cossack troops. Its construction City Council has allocated a lot of money. The monument was created by renowned architect of the Kuban VA Filippov.

The construction of such a large scale for Ekaterinodar obelisk was a matter of no small task. Its opening was held on the anniversary later - in May 1897, but despite this, in the festivities involved a huge number of inhabitants of Kuban, as a monument was a symbol of unshakable ties of many generations of Kuban, Black Sea, Zaporozhye, Don, linear Cossacks. Not an easy fate obelisk in the post-revolutionary period. In the 20-ies. XX century. from the top of the monument disappeared gilded double-headed eagle, the symbol of imperial Russia, and in 30-ies. - I have been completely dismantled.

New bookmark memorial obelisk took place during the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Kuban Cossack Army. Two years later, the monument was brought before the Kuban Cossacks in its original form. So the hard work of rebuilding the obelisk executed host Krasnodar sculptor AA Apollos.